Tuesday, 1 August 2017

The Biafra Zionist Federation, BZF, on Monday announced an interim ‎government to run the affairs of Biafra.

Self-acclaimed President of Biafra, Barr. Benjamin Onwuka made the announcement at a press briefing in Enugu.

Onwuka who declared himself Biafra President, named Prof. Pat Utomi as the foreign minister.

Amid cheers from his members, Onwuka declared: “I am the President of
Biafra; we have formed an interim government that will be in place till
the next 30 days.

“The interim government will take off tomorrow, August 1 and last till August 31, 2017, that is 30 days.

“America is behind the Biafra people because former President Barrack
Obama already endorsed Biafra before he left office and President
Donald Trump will not go against it considering that it has formed part
of America’s foreign policy.”

He named other members of the cabinet to include Prof. Chukwuma
Soludo- Central Bank of Biafra, CBB; Prof. Pat Utomi- foreign affairs;
Mrs. Aruma Oteh- finance minister; former Personal Secretary to Late Dim
Chukwuemeka Odumegwu Ojukwu- petroleum.

Onwuka equally announced that the Israelis would hold the positions
of defence, agriculture, internal affairs, Inspector General of Police
and Air Force, adding that they would also take 25 percent of the civil
service job in Biafra.

He said, “Israel will be key players in this government because there
is so much corruption in Nigeria; so, they are coming to help us clean
the system. They are coming to sweep the system. They will challen
agro-revolution and also abolish corruption very easily.

“Same goes for America; their companies will be in control of our oil
industry. This is to reward them for what Obama did for us; Obama saved
us even when we were in detention; they already passed death sentence
on us even without our knowledge, but Obama’s intervention saved us.”

He called for full mobilization of “Biafra security forces”,
stressing “all our security personnel in the army, police, air force,
nazy and others are hereby called upon to withdraw from Nigeria and join
the Biafra government.

“I am also calling on the avengers, the militants to come out from
the creeks and join us to defend and protect Biafra. I’m beckoning on
Asari Dokubo, Tompolo, Ateke Tom to come out and join us. I am calling
on all our boys in Biafra land to come out. I’m not afraid, the US is
with us.”
He equally slammed the Federal High Court sitting in Owerre, the Imo
State Capital, for allegedly refusing to free 10 of his members who were
granted bail by the same court.

Onwuka claimed that “although we have met all the conditions for
their bail, the bailiff of the Court is playing games, even after
collecting hundreds of thousands of naira from us.

“So, we are using this medium to ask them to release our members
forthwith because we have met all the conditions attached to their
bail.”

The self-acclaimed Biafra President, who also accused the Federal
Government of ‘Islamizing the Biafra Republic’, vowed that such move
would be totally resisted.

“The Biafra people will not allow themselves to be Islamized; 1967
will no longer be allowed to repeat itself. Apart from removing the
Christian Religious Knowledge from the school curriculum, they have also
banned history. This is to prevent our young ones from knowing all the
things that happened in the past.

“This is entirely war on our people and we are not going to take it.
Where there is religious conflict, the offended side will always win;
the same thing will happen here”, he vowed.

Onwuka was in 2014 arrested in Enugu after his group stormed the
Enugu State Broadcasting Service for the purpose of declaring Biafra
Republic.